We haven't discussed actually acquiring any illegal torrents from the site. Just about having trouble accessing the site itself. And as Kreuger said there are legal torrents on there. Sometimes I've turned to there because the downloads are faster than direct download, such as mods for games etc. The HD overhaul mod I got for HL2 clocked in at over 10GB and the direct download was terrible so I went to pirate bay.

I hope everyone knows the website http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com is a complete fake. It only detects if it's down for you. They don't really test it with their servers on their side. That's why it may be down for you and not down for others.